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Old 01-05-2007, 02:33 PM   #1
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Viewing control characters in a text file


Hello, Could someone please recommend the best way to find special characters in a text file? I have a file that contains some end-of-line characters that we must allow for in an application being developed. I thought this could either be done using vi editor or one of the text-formatting utilities.

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Old 01-05-2007, 03:02 PM   #2
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Old 01-06-2007, 11:10 PM   #3
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You can use Midnight Commander (mc) to search/view/edit the file. It allows you to view/edit the hex/ascii values at the same time. You should probably determine the hex value(s) in question and then search the file for that value (instead of searching the ascii value).
 
  


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